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The Wives of Torphican

Found in CSRCD1.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The Wives of Torphican - staff notation
X: 422
T: The Wives of Torphican
R: jig
B: Robert Bremner "A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances" 1757 p.42 #2 & p.43 #1
S: http://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Scots_Reels_or_Country_Dances_(Bremner,_Robert)
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Bar 2 has a mark before the C that may be a natural sign, but the bass line has no such marks.
N: Removed dots from last bass notes in each strain.
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: D
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V: 1
A |\
TF2D DFA | ECE G2E | TF2D DFA | DED f2d |\
(ga/g/f/e/) (fg/f/e/d/) | eEE E2A | TF2D A(d/c/B/A/) | FDD D2 :|
|: f |\
(f>ef) def | gaf efg | (Tf>ef) def | (ab/a/g) Tf2d |\
g(a/g/f/e/) f(g/f/e/d/) | eEE E2A | TF2A (Bd/c/B/A/) | dDD D2 :|
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V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z |\
d3 d3 | c3 c3 | d3 d3 | d3 d3 |\
g3 f3 | e3 e3 | d3 d3 | d3 d2 :|
%page 43
|: z |\
d3 d3 | e3 e3 | d3 d3 | d3 d3 |\
e3 d3 | A3 A3 | d3 d3 | d3 d2 :|
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